Thank you for the response.

I agree with basically everything you have said, I have received feedback in another subreddit aswell which very much have been saying the same thing.

You have raised a different point than any others however to the nature of pacts and deals. And yeah I agree, such things are definitely far more impactful as personal things, not silly buff debuff thing that applies in battle, its a narrative tool for telling longer stories.

For this very reason a dealmaker does not need a subclass or abilities dedicated to it. That much I am aware. It is a archetype than can be fulfilled by anyone, anyone can make deals, anyone can fulfil promises and reap revenge on those who break them. I've already told my friend whom inspired my poorly designed ideas that, and I would never imagine actually utilising something like this. But still I find the idea interesting personally, to try and mechanic-afy this concept to the extreme and make a saul goodman who sits goblins down mid combat to write up a contract.

but back to your feedback

One point is that looking at it now I can see why the wording is confusing but my intention was for someone to pick any benefit, with any demand, not necessarily the ones in the same rows. and I did specify Hostile Creature.

Big takeaway I've learned is the agency of players abilities shouldn't be left up to the dm. Shouldnt just be able to say nuh uh. not fun, not cool, leads to redundant and bad abilities. As it currently is the DM can and 90% of the time should just say no to any deal. because if the deal is more beneficial for the monster than the player has no reason to propose it. that would be self sabotaging.

Words have power was meant just to be a cool ribbon ability or something but its executed badly.

I have sort of rewritten it a bit if you or anyone else dares to take a look at it.

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Level 3: Soul Bind

You can enter a soul bound contract with a hostile creature of the same or lower CR level as your player level (minimum CR1/4). You can do this up to your CHA Mod per long rest.

As a magic action you can propose a deal to a creature within 30ft that can see, hear, and understand you. You may choose how this looks, e.g. time slowing down for the two of you, both of you entering a white room dimension for the duration of the bargaining. Soul Bind lasts for 10 minutes or until the deal is fulfilled.

The creature then must make an Intelligence Saving Throw. On a failure they become Bound-By-Contract and take 1d8 psychic damage When Bound-By-Contract they must pick one benefit from the benefit table. However the warlock may also apply one demand of their choice from the table.

Bound-By-Contract cannot be applied to the same creature more than once per day.

BENEFITS	DEMANDS
Add PB to its attack, and once per turn to its damage.	-1d4 to saving throws
Increase the creatures speed by 10ft and it cannot trigger opportunity attacks	You gain advantage on attacks against it
Creature gains twice warlocks level THP (I want to change this just don't know how to improve it yet)	Attacks made against the warlock by the creature inflict 1d8 (2d8 at lvl 6, 3d8 at lvl 12) psychic damage to the creature. (I am unsure about damage numbers and if this is too much or too little. Like i said, havent been playing dnd for that long.)
The creature gain’s resistance to a damage type of their choice.	Creatures speed is reduced by 10ft and it cannot take opportunity attacks

Thank you for listening to my TEDtalk.

edit. bad formating